Sorry to be a buzzkill, but since his face didn't appear, it doesn't count. The official rules say that you would have to be able to tell it was him by looking at him. Voiceovers don't count, apparently. The JFK->Field of Dreams one is as close as I could get to Bacon-James Earl Jones connection.

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Kevin Bacon pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

thanks to all of the guest actors Star Trek TNG had, you can go this way:

Brady to Dorn in the Dodge commercial

Dorn to Ray Wise in the TNG episode Who Watches the Watchers

Wise in X-Men First Class with Bacon

That is the only shortcut I could find, most of the other TNG guests (Ashley Judd, Tony Todd, Terry O'Quinn, James Cromwell, Famke Janssen, and many more) are the same number of steps as Patrick Stewart was.

link to Patrick Stuart, who gave a rousing speech at the Big House at half time of the Indiana game on November 11, 2006 in which he commanded that we should go to Columbus and beat the Buckeyes and then proclaimed "make it so... NUMBER ONE!!" He then conducted the band.

Or Indian Summer was written and directed by Mike Binder, who's partners in his Coney Dog* venture with Braylon Edwards (and Sam Raimi, whose brother Ted went to Michigan).

*People from Los Angeles you should go there. It's a Detroit-style Coneys restaurant in L.A. that will always have Michigan beers and the Michigan game. Adam Sandler and Kris Draper are also partners. Raimi is the only State fan so if he's in you might have to fight him for the remote.

Hooray! You just saved me from havin to drive my lazy ass all the way over to the west side for early kickoffs. I still don't understand why *both* official LA locations are so far west. Makes this H'wood Hillsider feel left out.